On Saturday 01 March 2003 23:05, Mike Morrell wrote: > I have metalog running but logs from the following apps dont seems to be > rotating correctly. > > qmail (qmail-send and qmail-smtpd) > samba > wtmp > > I know that samba is just writing directly to /var/log/samba so I might > need to use logrotate to handle it but I dont understand why qmail or > wtmp are not rotating. Is there some changes to metalog.conf I need to > make? Is there something I am just doing wrong? > > Lots of people seem to talk highly of metalog but I find it frustrating. > There doesnt even seem to be any log analyzers available for it. Am I > missing something in general or should I just go back to syslog? >
I don't use metalog or qmail, but wtmp is not a syslog log, and as such is not rotated by a system logger with internal rotating functionality. Use logrotate, it works well Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
pgp00000.pgp
Description: signature
